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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1355659, member: 23910"] It varies depending on the casino. Tournaments and SnGs are the easiest - you'll be charged a flat fee, same as you would be online, and you pay it at the same time as you pay your buy in for the tournament. There are a few ways rake in cash games can be handled. The easiest (though not necessarily the most common) is where the casino charges "time" - everybody pays a flat fee per unit of time they're in the game. It might be $5/hr, on the hour, for example. Probably the most common method is raking the pot, just like an online ring game. The dealer will take the amount out of the pot while the hand is in progress. They certainly don't estimate, a big part of casino poker dealer training is tracking pots and calculating rake. There'll be a fixed percentage of rake that the casino takes and usually it'll be capped (so 10% of the pot up to a maximum of $15 or something). Most casinos also have a "no flop no drop" policy where if a pot is taken down preflop no rake is paid. There's another option too which is called the collection pot. TBH it's one I don't understand that well because I've never played in a casino that uses it but it's sort of like a time charge that's collected differently. Once every hour (or whatever the time period is) there's a designated "collection pot". The next time there's a pot over a set amount (ie: big enough to pay the collection) the winner of that pot pays the equivalent of time for all of the players at the table. So if there's eight players at the table and the designated collection / time amount is $5 then the player that wins the collection pot will forfeit $40 of it to the house and take the remainder. I don't think it's that common, but they do use it on [I]Live At The Bike [/I]if you're interested in seeing it in action and someone who's actually played that method might be able to explain it better. Some casinos combine multiple methods - my local casino charges time [I]and[/I] rakes every pot in ring games, for example. Tipping is something I know a lot less about because it's not allowed in our casinos. From what I've read though tipping at the end of a tournament changes. Some casinos have included tips in their fee structure, others don't, check with the tournament director or floor person if you're not sure. What c9 said works for cash games. [/QUOTE]

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